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Golden Hinde is the highest peak on Vancouver Island, rising 2,195 metres in the Vancouver Island Ranges near the island’s geographic centre in Strathcona Provincial Park. Formed of basalt of the Karmutsen Formation, it stands in remote, rugged country that has made it a goal for experienced backcountry climbers since the first recorded ascent in 1913. Its name recalls Sir Francis Drake’s ship, inspired by an early fur-trading captain who thought the mountain at sunset resembled the vessel and linked it to Drake’s reputed presence off the coast during his 1577 to 1580 circumnavigation. Officially conferred in 1938, the name replaced the alternative The Rooster’s Comb used by early alpinists.
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